“Biblical principles for living”.
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Are you getting enough of those from your pastor/preacher/friends?
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Thanks, Pastor Mark.
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And thanks to flickr and locusresearch, for the photo.
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If we will just cooperate with Him, Jesus will throw out our demons and do great things for us. Right?
Wrong. What kind of a wimpy god would that be?
Jesus is quite capable of healing us on His own. For that is what a real God does. A real God creates out of nothing. He casts out demons.He makes new. He destroys evil. All without having to rely on the help of the ones who need the healing.
Listen in to this sermon on Jesus’ encounter with the Gerasene demoniac delivered by Brian Seaman. Brian is a Lutheran layman and president of our church council at Lutheran Church of the Master, Corona del Mar, CA.
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Thank you, Brian Seaman.
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And thanks to flickr and aslpicsmd, for the photo.
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Jesus teaches in the Temple during the Feast of Tabernacles and confronts the legalists and hypocrites who are seeking to kill him.
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Pastor Mark unpacks these verses in John 7 and explains why we also must not give in to the legalists of our time. _
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And thanks to flickr and Klearchos Kapoutsis, for the photo.
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I made it to the 1:50 mark. Can you beat that?
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There are lesser (we hope) versions of this going on in BIG “churches” all across America. “Lesser” doesn’t mean better.
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But there are tons of smaller, traditional congregations that won’t go there. Thanks be to God.
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This same sermon could be preached in any Catholic church or Baptist church. Or any Reformed church, or Pentecostal church. It could even be preached in other Lutheran churches.
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All that it would take is for a preacher to read and understand the Galatian letter and Paul’s intent to bring the Galatian churches back onto the rails of faith in Christ, alone, for our justification before a righteous God who demands from us nothing short of perfection.
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Thank you, Pastor Mark Anderson.
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And thanks to flickr and Amsterdam Asp, for the photo.
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There are, basically, two ways to look at the Christian life.
One would be more accurately described as “Christianism”.
The other is…well…listen in and see for yourself:
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Photo: flickr and squirlaraptor
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This sermon is NOT about feeding the poor:
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_( note – This sermon was delivered some years ago. The numbers cited may no longer be accurate, but were at the time the sermon was given)
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Thanks also to flickr and blcfcafe, for the photo.
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The power and authority of the Word of God to do what it will do…for sinners. That same power and authority and action is at work in Will’s Baptism…and in yours and mine.
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Listen to Pastor Mark’s sermon on Jesus, the centurion, and the healed slave:
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And thanks to flickr and malcompymm, for the photo.
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“We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.”
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We live in a world that is uncertain and unstable and this critical situation can become defining of everything. But neither the challenging world or our broken lives are the last reality. We do not have to spend ourselves in endless efforts to remain in control. Jesus tried hard to impress this on His hearers. He still does.
When Jesus reduced all the commandments to the simple and concrete love of God and the neighbor, He pointed us to a Kingdom within the darkened world, the light of which addresses universally the true hopes and aspirations of all people. The Kingdom of God, therefore, most passionately proclaimed through the Cross of Jesus, appeals to us to live in the freedom which creates the capacity to live within the sobriety of God’s kingdom – the kingdom for others – a kingdom at odds with the world, superior to it and destined to prevail.
If you find the Christian life perplexing, unsatisfying or even boring, the solution may not be as difficult to come by as you think. For, the Christian life is not about self protectionism, lived primarily inwardly. The Christian life is lived outwardly (for the sake of others). This is the great freedom of the Christian: that we may live without any self-consciousness, trusting in God’s grace alone, expecting nothing, yet having everything.
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“May the peace of God that passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
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From Pastor Mark Anderson’s Daily Devotional blog site
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The Old Adam Lives! 